draining的意思|draining的解释-里氏词典

draining ['dreiniŋ]

排水
泄水
排泄

The drain is blocked and needs unplugging.
排水管堵塞了, 得疏通一下.
Felt his enthusiasm draining.
感到他的热情渐渐消失

draining

[ adj ]
having a debilitating effect
<adj.all>
an exhausting job in the hot sun

Drain \Drain\ (dr[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drained}
(dr[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Draining}.] [AS. drehnigean to
drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]
1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or
off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.
--Bacon.

But it was not alone that the he drained their
treasure and hampered their industry. --Motley.

2. To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make
gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from
streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence,
to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like;
as, to drain a country of its specie.

Sinking waters, the firm land to drain,
Filled the capacious deep and formed the main.
--Roscommon.

3. To filter.

Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth,
hath become fresh. --Bacon.

Draining \Drain"ing\, vb. n. of {Drain}, v. t. (Agric.)
The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land.

{Draining tile}. Same as {Draintile}.

More important, their anticoagulants kept the blood draining for hours after the leeches themselves had fallen off.
Meanwhile, the war continues to damage the Soviets' Third World relations while draining their economy and military.
Havel shrugged off a question on whether he was concerned that the Persian Gulf crisis was draining away money that could have been used to help support his country's ailing economy.
"We're here all summer," says the first, draining his yogurt.
Conditions in Boston won't improve significantly until the Ohio crests at Louisville, 23 miles north, and allows the Salt River to begin draining, Callahan said Friday.
Broken pipes, which caused most of the trouble by draining storage tanks, will have to be repaired before service is fully restored.
Railroad crews pumped jet and diesel fuel off beaver ponds today after draining 10 of the derailed tanker cars that spewed 120,000 gallons into an area with wildlife and newly spawned fish.
Mr. Ghose noted the weak earnings and negative cash flow are draining Continental's capital, forcing it to pay its hefty $2.60-a-share quarterly dividend out of surplus, rather than earnings.
Fierce storms dumped 2 to 4 inches of rain on northwestern Louisiana, where the Red River already was rising from water draining down from the Oklahoma-Texas border area.
One of them is designed to alleviate glaucoma, a disease in which fluid builds up inside the eye and exerts harmful pressure, by boring a small hole for draining the fluid.
Whatever its fate, the project has played a disastrous role in draining O&Y's cash to a point where it has sought protection from its creditors under US and Canadian insolvency laws.
Critics argue in court documents that Mr. Hubner bought Health Industries with the idea of draining the clubs of millions of dollars of assets and eventually closing them.
"It gets draining," she said. "When it gets to be a little bit too much that's when I have to back off, at least for a day, because I don't want it ever to be tedious.
It was emotionally draining."
She was dragged into the woods, beaten with a brick and a pipe, raped repeatedly and left to die, her blood draining into a mud puddle.
Liquidity is expected to come under pressure next week when tax payments for February fall due. In the US, the Federal Reserve signalled no change in the funds rate by draining reserves at 3 7/8 per cent.
Many suspect a Wendover company's practice of draining brine from land adjacent to the flats to recover potash.
In September, Chips & Technologies also asked the International Trade Commission to bar imports of computer chips made by OPTi and three other rivals that it claims are infringing on its patents and draining its business.
They view higher fuel costs as the functional equivalent of a tax increase, draining off large amounts of disposable income at a time when the economy was already running low on supplies of money and credit.
That's all well and good for them, but Simon himself stands to become a quintessential spoiler, draining votes from compatible liberal candidates without a prayer of winning himself.
President Reagan will press again at the seven-nation economic summit for an end to what he calls the farms race, the $150 billion agricultural subsidy battle which is draining the treasuries of developed countries.
That's because employers are discovering that more of their workers are responsible for caring for an elderly relative, an often demanding and draining task.
An engineer who complained she was harassed after raising safety concerns about draining nuclear waste storage tanks reached agreement Tuesday with her employer, the company said.
Officials in this capital deny military successes will harden their stance at the conference table, saying the draining "half war, half peace" that exists is unacceptable.
He said drugs were draining hundreds of millions of dollars from the American economy, and he questioned why the U.S. keeps sending aid to countries where the drugs come from.
It is over-staffed, inefficient and draining Government funds, making its attractions for the private sector somewhat limited. The Government hopes to create rail links with Afghanistan, but is unlikely to foot the bill.
"Should this war in Korea continue, this great and powerful nation can find itself fighting a war of containment all over the world, draining us of manpower and resources.
The exodus is draining East Germany of skilled workers and straining West German social services.
In a report last spring, the private Inter-American Dialogue warned that Latin America's $420 billion debt is draining resources, blocking growth and threatening political disruption.
But cash has been draining rapidly out of Chrysler since the middle of last year.

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